This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.

FIRST TIME HERE?

FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:

Choose your Username.  For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either).  Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username.  While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!

Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!

Join groups!  Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself!  Start making friends that can last a lifetime.

Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak

All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018. 

Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)

Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC

...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.

OPSEC - Navy Operations Security

Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind.  In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships."  OPSEC is everyone's responsibility. 

DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.  

DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."

Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:

OPSEC GUIDELINES

Events

**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed.  Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.

**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.

**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:

In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).  

FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:

RTC Graduation

**UPDATE 8/25/2022 - MASK MANDATE IS LIFTED.  Vaccinations still required.

**UPDATE 11/10/22 PIR - Vaccinations no longer required.

RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021

Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.

Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.

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Navy.com Para Familias

Visite esta página para explorar en su idioma las oportunidades de educación y carreras para sus hijos en el Navy. Navy.com

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Sub Moms

Welcome to the deep, silent world of submarines!  If you're new to this world, start by reading the "Pages" of info found in the right-hand column, below the strip of member avatars.

We welcome your questions.  But, while you're here, maintain silence... don't slam doors or the lid on the toilet!

 Please, if you no longer want to be a part of N4M's consider NOT deleting your profile as everything you have ever posted will disappear when you delete it .  You can leave a group but don't permanently delete your profile!

Group Administrator: Kaye S. Kaye S.

Members: 1304
Latest Activity: Feb 11

READ THE "PAGES" FIRST!

NEW MEMBERS !!

PLEASE READ ARTICLES IN THE "PAGES" AREA

in the right-hand column, under the avatars ----->

BEFORE YOU ASK QUESTIONS !!

These articles are the "reference library" for moms, ready to answer FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions) 24x7 (twenty-four hours, seven days a week).  You may not have to post a question after all!  Thanks, Kaye S.

 NOTE:  THERE ARE MORE PAGES THAN DISPLAYED -

FOR A COMPLETE LIST, CLICK ON "VIEW ALL" AT

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New to this life?  SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR NEW NAVY MOMS

Need an Ombudsman?  OMBUDSMAN REGISTRY

Discussion Forum

Roll Call: Name your sailor's sub!

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Personal Storage on Fast Attack Subs

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Personal Storage on Fast Attack Subs

Started by Catherine. Last reply by JayDee659 May 18, 2020. 1 Reply

submarine visits to foreign ports

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Comment by navykid on June 26, 2015 at 10:46am

Maybe he can tell me more after pre-deployment night. It's coming up soon.

Comment by navykid on June 26, 2015 at 10:42am

@mrsb..since my son is on a fast attack, I can send him a care package to the FPO anytime??

Comment by mrsb on June 26, 2015 at 10:38am
Comment by mrsb on June 26, 2015 at 10:37am

madhoby, the ombudsman list is not just for girlfriends and wives, it's for parents too!!!  You need to have him add you to the list.  They sometimes send out important information and when they are deployed you can send a half way box or ziploc.  Those are stored on the boat until the half way point of deployment for the sailors to open; a little slice of home way out in the water.  I would insist if I were you!

Comment by navykid on June 26, 2015 at 10:30am

@ madhoby,  My son asked me to send him a halfway box, and also he wanted me to send a few items for display on the sub since it's named after his home state. He says he doesn't know his address(personal nor sub). I told him it's kinda hard to send stuff to nowhere..lol.. But I did find a group on FB that someone had posted the FPO, but I'm not sure it's right. It's just really frustrating when there's not a lot I can do from NC and he's in Hawaii not wanting to ask. Reading some of the information in the articles ----> ----> has helped, but still at a disadvantage.

Comment by madhoby on June 26, 2015 at 10:07am

navykd, I so understand.  My son leaves for his first underway at some point soon, and he tells me to don't worry about it until I get a call from someone on base.  I have asked him to get me an email so I can send him emails, and he says he is not going to stand in line to get to the computers.  Also he won't put me on the ombudsman list as that is just for girlfriends and wives......His sister says yeah let him go away and not get anything from us for the 90 day trip and we will see what happens next time, after all he was really upset that he didn't get mail like he wanted while he was in boot camp.  Somehow he got on the bad side of someone and would get mail late and all in a group.  Plus he only had one phone call the entire time as he was sick when they were allowed to call, and when he asked the person in charge said oh you want to call home, so he said NO.   HE is always determined to not allow anyone the chance to hold something over him.  

Comment by Bainite on June 26, 2015 at 9:46am

elilam46 - this is the only information I could glean (my deployed sailor forgot to measure his rack, and my other sailor is still in A school):  http://navysheets.com/RIAS.html.  It's a site called "Rack-in-a-sack", that makes customized easier-to-care-for bedsheets for navy racks.

Comment by Amy L. on June 26, 2015 at 9:21am

Thanks for the info Cath Bubblehead Mom!!!   Really appreciate that!   If I can get through not talking with him, and get "the letter" I guess it'll get better???   I think them not having phones is more of a punishment on the parents!  :)   Thanks again and have a good Friday!!!

Comment by navykid on June 26, 2015 at 8:50am

My son leaves soon for deployment and I'm just a worried bag of mess. Not knowing how to contact him, or when to talk to him, or send him things :( Since he is new to the  sub he is also one of those types that doesn't ask a lot of questions in fear he will be singled out I believe, and therefore can't answer much of anything I ask..I feel so helpless .

Comment by Annette on June 25, 2015 at 10:20pm
MamaCindy, my hubby earned his dolphins in June 1979; most ,, if not all of his quals were done while his boat was in dry dock for overhaul/refit As well! FYI, our son got pinned May 32 with his Dad's dolphins!
 
 
 

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